The most necessary, most difficult and principal thing in music, that is time.

Music must never offend the ear, but must please the listener, or, in other words, must never cease to be music.

Now there is music from which a man can learn something.

Forgive me, Majesty. I am a vulgar man! But I assure you, my music is not.

Melody is the essence of music.

I have never written the music that was in my heart to write; perhaps I never shall with this brain and these fingers, but I know that hereafter it will be written; when instead of these few inlets of the senses through which we now secure impressions from without, there shall be a flood of impressions from all sides; and instead of these few tones of our little octave, there shall be an infinite scale of harmonies - for I feel it - I am sure of it. This world of music, whose borders even now I have scarcely entered, is a reality, is immortal.

Creativity is the firing of my soul.